For these seventeen- or eighteen-year-old boys, this was the first time they had witnessed the brutality of war.
Most students couldn't bear to watch any longer and turned away, gritting their teeth. Some girls, like Lin Xiaoqian, couldn't help but sob.
Chen Qian remained silent, watching Song Ben, who was leading the charge with a cold and solemn expression, narrowly escape death several times under the siege of the zombie horde. He felt a surge of resentment constantly condensing in his chest.
Am I just supposed to watch?
Shen Qian, who always cherished his life, couldn't control the urge to rush out at this moment.
"AFK request failed!"
"Beep! Yellow warning!"
"The system has detected that this AFK mission requires a large amount of energy and there are unknown variables on the battlefield. With less than 50% of energy remaining, this AFK mission is automatically canceled to ensure that the host's survival probability is not less than 90%."
Chen Qian looked at the prompt that popped up in his mind again, feeling somewhat helpless.
The system has no emotions; it only considers the situation from the most objective perspective.
In other words, it doesn't care about the lives or deaths of other people.
But the more this happened, the more intense the inner torment became before sinking into the abyss.
Having observed this, he knows that he has the ability to change the situation to some extent.
Those seemingly invulnerable dead people, clad in cold armor, actually possess a way to counteract their own vital energy.
Can……
He hadn't had enough time to restore his original energy; only the system could unleash its full power.
The chanting between heaven and earth grew louder and louder. The nine cloaked figures ignored the fighting on the battlefield and had raised their heads at some point, gazing at the light spots in the air that had shrunk to the size of half a person.
Their bruised and swollen faces looked particularly ferocious under the halo of light, but it couldn't hide the fanatical look in their eyes.
The woman, who had been walking unsteadily, suddenly started running wildly, as if urged by something.
She kept falling, her legs were covered in blood and gore, but she held the baby in her arms tightly and kept getting up and running back to the altar.
Is it too late?
He smiled bitterly. He hadn't convinced the system yet, but the woman had already rushed to the tree stump and placed the baby on it.
The heavens and earth trembled.
Snow began to fall in the once peaceful valley. Shen Qian saw that the spot of light in the sky seemed to have been stimulated by something, and suddenly expanded to several meters in size, vaguely forming the shape of a door, from which a dark figure emerged.
The dark figure seemed to be encountering some kind of obstacle and was trying to pass through the door.
The first thing to emerge was a hand, a pale, zombie-like hand with long fingernails.
The wind and snow in the world grew even fiercer.
The hand, still in mid-air, reached out towards the baby below, as if expressing some kind of longing.
It's like a sacrificial ritual, with the baby being the scavenger's offering, solely to summon the monster behind that door, or that "door."
This is the understanding before sinking.
Even at this point, Sun Fang and the others still showed no sign of giving up. On the contrary, Sun Fang's spirits lifted, and he swung his spear even faster.
"This is a 'door' of grade C or higher. It will take quite a while to fully open it. We still have a chance!"
Sun shouted something, as if to encourage Huang Tao and the others who were struggling forward.
But after that hand appeared, the horde of corpses seemed to become even more frenzied, and even their strength increased.
Sun Fang and the others slowed their pace even further.
"Commander Sun, think of something quickly! The owner of that hand must be someone above the Mountain and Sea realm. If he comes out, everyone will die here!"
Huang Tao glanced at the door above the altar and called out with a heavy expression.
Upon hearing this, a fleeting look of struggle crossed Sun Fang's face, but he quickly issued the order in a loud voice.
"Right Battalion Commander, listen to my command! At all costs, regardless of life or death... pave the road!"
Before he could even grasp the meaning of "paving the way," an incredibly shocking scene unfolded before his eyes.
Victory is certain!
A hoarse, violent roar echoed through the valley. Shen Qian looked in the direction of the sound and saw a military warrior at the front rush out and pin a zombie to the ground.
He paved the way forward with his own body.
He was just the first.
Victory is certain!
Victory is certain!
More and more military personnel roared and charged out, using their bodies as a barrier to plow a path through the enemy.
Sun Fang had tears in his eyes, but he rushed forward without hesitation, stepping over the bodies of his comrades.
The second fastest was He Yanfeng, who was already terrified, and he followed closely behind Sun Fang.
After sighing, Huang Tao and the others quickly followed suit, wielding their weapons even faster in an attempt to reduce casualties among the military personnel.
Before he could see clearly, he took off his protective mask. The tears in his eyes quickly froze into ice crystals, which he then dispersed with his energy.
"Sinking... Damn it, are we just going to stand by and watch?!"
Ouyang Fei, whose eyes were already bloodshot, clenched his fists, as if questioning Shen Qian, or perhaps questioning himself.
Click, click, click!
Behind them came the sound of snow being crushed underfoot, and countless students screamed in terror.
Shen Qian turned his head and saw that countless walking corpses had appeared behind the hillside at some unknown time.
They were the corpses we had seen on the road ahead.
They silently swarmed over, only to be firmly blocked fifty meters away.
The remaining second and third teams, along with the ninth team that abandoned the psionic cannons, formed a total of three hundred military warriors, creating the strongest defensive line and silently blocking the surging zombies.
There were simply too many zombies, and the defense line of three hundred men was so weak. One after another, the soldiers fell, but they did not retreat an inch.
Those nameless figures who sank into the abyss gave their lives without hesitation, all for Sun Fang's order to protect his students.
Shen Qian felt it was all ridiculous, and the pent-up frustration in his chest finally reached its peak.
They stand here, worrying, crying, and shouting, yet doing nothing...
That's really like being an idiot!
Zhao Hanhai rushed out, and Liu Simin, who was trembling with fear, also screamed and rushed out, followed by many more teachers...
Without looking back, he tore off his protective suit and strode to the top of the slope, leaving Ouyang Fei and the others, who were still arguing with him about whether to help, in awe.
"Shen Qian, what...what are you going to do?"
The students of Class 109 had already unconsciously gathered around Shen Qian. They were all astonished at the sight. Wang Yangming, who knew Shen Qian best, guessed what was going on and asked in a trembling voice.
"Me, Laozi..."
A biting wind swept over him. Shen Qian turned around, casually tossed aside his protective suit, and grinned.
"I'm going to go and kill these hermaphrodites!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Qian leaped down from the valley.
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